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  1. Bug #109211
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 109211

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Wenzhuo Zhang (wenzhuo) wrote : Re: [Bug 109211] Re: feisty doesn't work with external CD writers anymore

Quoting Sitsofe Wheeler <email address hidden>:

> Wenzhuo:
> It does look like a move to libata is ultimately on the cards. See
> http://lwn.net/Articles/198344/ and
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_19#head-cdcbaa9c1b476decdc064e0a75d23d1328b1ddce for reasons why the change is
> happening...

For such critical devices, Linux distributions should opt for the
safer choice. It cannot be wrong to stay a little behind the vanilla
kernel. If a new libata-based PATA driver has a bug that annoys users,
and a fix isn't available yet, just revert to its old PATA counterpart.

The libata-based PATA drivers are still in experimental status. Ubuntu
is too brave this time.

NASA is still using 8086, isn't it?